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Latitude: 55.5463 / 55°32'46"N
Longitude: -2.8413 / 2°50'28"W
OS Eastings: 347014
OS Northings: 628389
OS Grid: NT470283
Mapcode National: GBR 84L9.NM
Mapcode Global: WH7WV.BV7H
Plus Code: 9C7VG5W5+GF
Entry Name: Old Parish Church And Burial-Ground, Kirk Wynd, Selkirk
Listing Name: Kirk Wynd, Auld Kirkyard, Old Parish Kirk, Boundary Wall, Railings, Gates and Gateway
Listing Date: 12 March 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386515
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40567
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Selkirk, Kirk Wynd, Old Parish Church And Burial-ground
ID on this website: 200386515
Kirk dating from 1748. Ruinous, roofless kirk and kirkyard with 17th and 18th century tombstones.
OLD PARISH KIRK: rubble walls with round-arched opening to NE with red sandstone stepped wallhead to bellcote above. Possibly oldest surviving gravestone set in interior wall to SW of full-length figure and coat of arms, possibly late 16th century. Gravestones in memory of the Murray family (maternal ancestors of Franklin D Roosevelt) are to be found to interior wall, SE.
AULD KIRKYARD: number of large stones and enclosures with cast-iron railings. Amongst those commemorated are Andrew Lang (1844-1912), James Brown (1832-1904).
BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS, GATES AND GATEWAY: whinstone rubble with ashlar coping. Quadrant wall with wrought-iron railings to NE (Kirk Wynd) to whinstone with sandstone dressings, round-arched gateway with cornice and parapet; wrought-iron 2-leaf gates. Plaque commemorating the fact that the street was widened and improved by ex-Provost George Roberts of Dandswall, Selkirk in 1910.
The parish church underwent repairs, including in 1829 when it was re-roofed, painted and stoves were introduced "to the comfort of the congregation in winter", according to the Statistical Account. There has been a church on this site since the Middle Ages, according to
B Holton. It was at the old Kirk o the Forest that William Wallis reputedly proclaimed Guardian of Scotland in 1298. This kirk was demolished in the 16th century and a new structure was erected (described as "a very pretty church, the form of it a cross house, the steeple having at each corner 4 pyramidal turrets", by Christopher Lowther). By 1747 the congregation had outgrown this and hence the kirk which is now ruinous was built. This became redundant in 1861 when St Mary?s West, Ettrick Terrace was built as the new parish church.
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